I dont add modern silver world coins often like I would like. But these were offered on the PCGS boards at a great price and had to have them. The German are my first nazi coinage too. And no I didnt pay the prices on the flips.
I love those old nazi eagle designs. Two of the first coins I ever bought (actually a birthday present) were those haha.
That shilling would be in my odds and ends box. EF and better silver from the war years is uncommonly common, possibly because a lot was hoarded because of wartime uncertainty and black market activity. Much of it did not come out of hiding till many years later, and it is still routine to find 1940s 50% silver coins looking remarkably presentable. Another factor was the Bunker Hunt silver ramp. Really huge amounts of coinage was trawled through to find pre 1947 silver, I did some myself, and even the greediest silver picker would put aside any high grade coins found, when the average circulated stuff entered the bullion trade. It made sense because you could get a small numismatic premium above the silver value. This meant that a lot of coins that would otherwise have circulated for a few more years stopped getting any wear at an unnaturally young age, and now exist in disproportionate numbers. The events of history and other extraneous factors can have huge effect on the rarity and otherwise of coins.
I bought them only because I didnt have the types and the price was more then fair *again, didnt pay whats on the flips, far from it*. I did have a low grade aussie of that type was it was 1954, worn and scratched. Its nice to break out of ancients now and then.
